Contents:
- FROM GAY NAZIS TO “WE’RE HERE, WE’RE QUEER”: A CENTURY OF ARGUG ABOUT GAY PRI
- HOW BARBRA STREISAND AND ROBERT REDFORD’S ‘THE WAY WE WERE’ WAS INSPIRED BY A REAL-LIFE GAY ROMANCE (BOOK EXCERPT)
- WE WERE GAY UNTIL WE MET EACH OTHER: OUR UNUAL HETEROSEXUAL LOVE STORY
FROM GAY NAZIS TO “WE’RE HERE, WE’RE QUEER”: A CENTURY OF ARGUG ABOUT GAY PRI
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“David Weissman and Bill Weber’s brisk, tenr, multifaceted, and eply movg documentary, tells the story of the AIDS crisis through the voic of four gay men … and one woman, all of whom pched —for years—to help the sick and the dyg bee, as the movie mak clear, the circumstanc ma unthkable for them to do otherwise. This month, hundreds of thoands of people around the world will jo gay pri march ci big and small.
HOW BARBRA STREISAND AND ROBERT REDFORD’S ‘THE WAY WE WERE’ WAS INSPIRED BY A REAL-LIFE GAY ROMANCE (BOOK EXCERPT)
Few untri around the world have robt protectns for gay and transgenr rights. One reason is that gay and trans rights don’t scribe a sgle, unary polil movement.
My rearch, together wh that of Jam Steakley, Katie Sutton, Robert Beachy, and many others, shows that there are several tradns of gay and trans activism. A history of multiple movementsGay and trans rights movements are que old.
For more than 100 years, polil groups have been fightg on behalf of same-sex sir, genr nonnformy, and transn om one genr to the other—although the terms “gay rights” and “trans rights” are relatively recent ventns.
WE WERE GAY UNTIL WE MET EACH OTHER: OUR UNUAL HETEROSEXUAL LOVE STORY
By the late 1800s, a movement that lled self “homosexual emancipatn” formed Germany. From the begng, gay and transgenr activists spl to a dizzyg array of factns. One proment lear of a gay rights group was also an important player Berl’s munist party.
There were even right-wg, explicly racist gay rights activists. The Nazi Party self was zealoly anti-gay. Yet, the historil rerd shows that a small number of men quietly belonged to both the homosexual emancipatn movement and the Nazi Party, though they were not open about their sexualy wh the party.